I’d intended a different meaning of “hard”. On reflection your interpretation seems a very reasonable inference from what I wrote.
What I meant:
Teaching is hard enough that you shouldn’t expect to find it easy without having spent any time studying it. Even as a well educated westerner, the bits of teaching you can reasonably expect to pick up won’t take you far down the path to mastery.
I’d intended a different meaning of “hard”. On reflection your interpretation seems a very reasonable inference from what I wrote.
What I meant: Teaching is hard enough that you shouldn’t expect to find it easy without having spent any time studying it. Even as a well educated westerner, the bits of teaching you can reasonably expect to pick up won’t take you far down the path to mastery.
(Thank you for you comment—it got me thinking.)